Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-06-10
CURRENT EVENTS.
IDAHO

first four months of the present year foot up
ssO00J00J.
1t is said that the present to exSecretary
Manning from the treasury employees will be
punch-bowl
NJ. Pasteur says he has treated five hundred
bylrophobia cases with his cure this year aud
lost only one.
jay Gould is the owner of ten thousand
acres OF land In Arkansas, located In three
different counties.
Over ls1 natural-gas and oil companies have
been organized In the state OF Ohio during
the past sixteen months.
Fire is again eating away the forests OF New
jersey this time In the vicinity OF Waterford
where hundreds Of acres OF fine timber lands
have been burned over during the past few
days
Two and half million shad eggs have been
sent to the New York fish hatchery by Prof.
Baird, oil the United States commission. At
ter Incubation they win be deposited in tho
waters Of the Upper Hudson.
A Boston disciple OF Esculapius says cotton
stockings are the baue Of New Eng aud wo-
men, anil advises the ladies TO cast them on
and go barefootei rather than wear an article
that destroys them with rheumatism aud Deu-
ralgia.
In 1851 there was one blind person In En-
gland to every 879 Of the population; In 1851
one TO every 1857; Ia 1871, one to LOSE. AMI
in 1881, one to l, i3S. IL costs the government
S2oJ.oD year To maintain blind people In
the almhouscs.
The telephone wire between Brussels and
Paris was put 10 fraterual use recently by the
advantage OF microphone. The Partisan
people, being invited TO listen to band of
muse In Brussels heard over the wire
French melody, and beard II so distinctly that
not note was missed.
They have found bottomless pit on tho
line Of the Carthage and Adirondack railway,
New turk, into which they have dumped
three hundred carloads OF stone and gravel.
No sooner do they get the hole filed up and
the roadbed apparently safe than the whole
thing disappears under water.
The ~ sigor Commercial says one Maine
clergyman had quite an experience during the
food. lie started 10 preach in neighb1ring
town last Sunday, and after riding several
miles came TO bridge that was foot under
water His horse refusing to 70 over IL, the
preacher took of his boots and stockings
rolled up his pants and waded across, leading
his horse.
A noted Washington mcsmcrist, writing to
friend In that city from the City OF Mex CO.
says that on April IS he had $500 house IN
the City OF Mexico, but the interpreter got
frightened aud did not adequately explain
things, the snpersiitious and ignorant
audience howled for their money back and
threatened arrest, and the mesmerist left
next morning for the ''states.n
New York business signs present some curl
Gus condolences. Taylor Il Cutter Is a
clothing Arm in the Bowcry. A dealer In
euried hair Is named Willcomb. A Blocker
street slgn reads II. Go Hove" OF metropol-
itan milk.dcaicra, one Is Well AMI another
Water Currle IL Rice do busineas together.
Mauhelp isa namo on sign next to one
bearing the name OF Godlove on Broadway.
A young man who bad been hanging around
Washington trying to get 81, 90 clerkshlp
I'LL his money was all gone, recently received
an offer OF $50 month TO 90 TO Birmingham,
Ala, as tally clerk. A friend loaned him
500 TO pay his board bill aud get out OF town
with, and he went In few days his
'bossn at Birmingham loaned him
money 10 buy a lot of land with.
and week later he sold It for upward of ST.
600 advance
In Danbury, Conn, there Ia a pair OF twins
that not only look and speak exactly alike, but
are peculiarly attached TO one another, They can
not be separated single day without longing
for each others society aud yet they are both
married now. IL one is upon one street aud
the other is upon different one thes can tell
by some electrical atlliity whether they are
approaching each other or getting further
apart When Que is sick the other is more or
less similarly affected.
Michael Donohue and Miss Margaret ID lcey,
who were servants In the household OF the late
Gov. Horatlo Seymour, OF ullcl, N Y, were
united in marriage at Syracuse few days
aEo Donohue was known TO hundreds ol
public meu who had occasion to visit the sage
of Deerfeld on political missions The bride
be ssiak wac ~ much trusted by the mistress
of the house Mrs Roscoe Conklng sent the
couple handsome present. Mr.. aud Mrs.
Denohue sailed for Europe Thursday ON tho
Baltic.
Two years ago A. X Ledoux. Of New York
city, purchased an evening paper from a
boy on Wall street, and handed him silver
dollar, The lad had no change. aud went into the
stationery store of Theodure f. Henderson, to
get IL He came out aud gave the chemist
the change When Mr.. Leioux awolle the
next morning he folnd a counterfeit half.
dollar in his pocket, aud Immediately had
Mr.. Henderson, arrested and locked up Soon
after the statioaer sued LeGoux in the sup
erior court before Judge Freedman for s. 90
damages for false arrest. On the trial the
plsintid and the newsboy testified that
there vas no half dollar among the coins that
were given in exchange for the dollar, A jury
returned verdict for 500
The Royal National Lfe-Boat institution.
London, has decided to offer gold aud silver
medal for drawings or models OF a mechanic.
aily propelled hfe-bOat best adapted to meet
the conditions un Ter which the lfe-boats are
called upoa To perform their work Also a
gold and a silver medal for models or drawings
OF propelling power suitable for the boats
oil the institution. Al models and draw ms
mhst be forward 10 the institution not later
than Oct | next, under cipher, accompi IN ed
by tse fullest detailed explanations, and a
scaled cover containing the name aud address
oil The eompetitar, not 10 be opened untl
after decision has been arrived at. The
models aud drawings viii he examined 5v
three judges, appointed by the committee, who
reserve TO themselves the right of WITHHOLD
Ing all or any OF the medals.
A romantic story was related in PITTSBURGH
the other day By a Weshman named II.
Llotd, who was en- route from Oregon To New
York, whence he sails for En- slaud. He is
"a years OF aQe. and bafnra ha Ia. -,.,t.t